Social Justice is a Library Issue; Libraries are a Social Justice Issue

librarian.net/talks/alicesmith
October 18, 2019

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general links

• Are you planning to do a land acknowledgment? (simple explainer)
• How to help someone use a computer by Phil Agre
• CBC's Murdoch Mysteries & their Wikipedia page
• Tech companies band together to help refugees
• 'ICE Is Everywhere': Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis
• ALA SRRT newsletter archive
• My tales from drop-in time Twitter moment.
• Draft horses bring fiber optics to remote locations from VT Digger
• Google, democracy and the truth about internet search from The Guardian
• The Miseducation of Dylann Roof by Southern Poverty Law Center
• Teaching Tolerance

#critlib resources

• Critlib website
• Follow #critlib on Twitter
• Freire's Pedagogy of Oppressed
• bell hooks on education from the encyclopedia of informal education
• Wikipedia on Praxis
• The Professional is the Political by John Overholt
• Data voids and the Google

tactics for action

• India's Mars mission: Picture that spoke 1,000 words & The women scientists who took India into space
• In All-Gender Restrooms, the Signs Reflect the Times
• 15 Experts Debunk Right-Wing Transgender Bathroom Myth
• SPLC - Report Hate
• ProPublica - Report Hate Crimes & Tell Your Story
• ALA - Report Challenges
• arguments for diversity
  • diversity makes us smarter
  • diverse teams in workplaces are smarter
  • diverse juries are more thorough and thoughtful than homogenous groups
  • diverse groups of stock tradersmake better decisions
  • papers written by diverse groups receive more citations & have higher impact factors than papers written by people from the same ethnic group
  • diversity empowers not just science but innovation generally
• Photo speaks volumes about Obama and race in the Washington Post
• Anil Dash: The Year I Didn't Retweet Men
• Harvard Implicit Biases Tests
• Unmasking 'racial micro aggressions' from Monitor on Psychology
• GLAAD Media Reference Guide on transgender terminology & Conscious Style Guide
• Beyoncé's Lemonade and Beyoncé's 'Lemonade' and Information Resources LibGuide by Jenny Ferretti
• LibrariesResist Twitter and Resource Guide
• Gender Identity and the Bathroom Debate: What We're Doing - a Libguide
• British Library Public Domain images
• Superhero coloring pages
• Florida Memory Project
• Wikipedia's 1Lib1Ref project & handout
• Jewel Mazique tweet and article

image credits

• Wrench by Tomasz Pasternak from the Noun Project
• Background image from bilderbeste
• Banksyesque librarian image by Rebecca McCorkindale
• What is normal? image from Oregon Dairy Council
• Microaggression image from Turner Consulting Group